| Simple Story of a Soldier: Life and Service in the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Contributor(s): Hankins, Samuel W. (Author), Marszalek, John F. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0817351574 ISBN-13: 9780817351571 Publisher: Fire Ant Books OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2004 Annotation: The camp, battle, and prison experiences of a common soldier. "The story is doubtless the most vivid record of a Confederate soldier's life that has been or will be written. [Hankins] gives in detail the most ludicrous events vividly as if a mature, gifted writer had kept a diary at the time, and his truly 'simple story' will create sympathetic interest. It is so devoid of bitterness that a man who served on the 'other side' . . . would sympathize with him in the hardships and privations of prison life and deplore that the government he served did not when it could render more humane service to him."--"Confederate Veteran, 1912 John F. Marszalek is the retired William L. Giles Distinguished Professor at Mississippi State University and author of, among other works, "Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order and "The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Military - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | Military - Veterans |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004006299 |
| Series: Alabama Fire Ant |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.58" W x 8.5" (0.33 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This memoir was written in 1905 by 61-year-old Samuel W. Hankins detailing his years as a Confederate rifleman from the spring of 1861, when at a he volunteered for the 2d Mississippi Infantry, through the end of the war in 1865, when he was just twenty years old and maimed for life. |